Paul Auster’s (Post)Modern Chronotopes:: Space, Time, Genre

The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as.

Julia Seltnerajch, Ph.D., works in the Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin. Her main areas of academic interest include postmodernism, the evolution of literary genres, as well as spatial semiotics. She has published on British and American contemporary fiction and dystopian narratives.